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Sitrep 13/2024

March 5, 2024

INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN – Update FBEU members in Wollongong showed up in force today, descending on the office of Minister Paul Scully in a further escalation of our industrial campaign. In an article from the Daily Telegraph last week, the Premier acknowledged the […]

Sitrep 12/2024

March 4, 2024

INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN – Call to action Tuesday & Wednesday Following on from last Monday’s campaign actions, and the continued disrespect being shown to FBEU members by the Minns Government, the State Committee has met to deliberate on further escalating our […]

Sitrep 11/2024

March 1, 2024

INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN SAVE THE DATE With the IR Minister yesterday confirming in budget estimates that there is still no approval on bargaining parameters for our expired Awards, we are asking off-duty members who are available to Save the Date for […]

Sitrep 10/2024

February 29, 2024

2024 Award Update While we wait for bargaining parameters from the Government, the FBEU continues to meet in good faith with FRNSW in an attempt to progress negotiations as far and as fast as we can. Discussions are occurring on […]

Sitrep 9/2024

February 27, 2024

Firefighters down tools to demand Government and FRNSW come to the table with a bargaining offer In coordinated action, eight pumps from across the metro came offline yesterday and descended on the NSW Parliament. Joined by the FBEU State Committee, […]

Code Red – Award Expiry Industrial Campaign

February 25, 2024

CODE RED – Award Expiry Industrial Campaign As per Friday’s Sitrep, our Awards officially expire today, however, the Government has still failed to provide FRNSW with bargaining parameters, leaving negotiations at a stand-still. As other avenues have failed to get […]

Sitrep 8/2024

February 23, 2024

Bargaining Dispute Imminent As detailed in Sitrep 6, last week the FBEU wrote to Premier Minns requesting his urgent intervention in order to avoid an escalation of an industrial dispute pertaining to our Awards. A response to the letter from Industrial […]

2024 Fbeu State Committee Of Management Election

February 23, 2024

2024 FBEU State Committee of Management Election February 23, 2024 The NSW Electoral Commission is conducting this year’s election of the FBEU State Committee of Management. Attached to this Sitrep is an Election Notice from the NSW Electoral Commission outlining […]

Code Red – Samsung Appliance Phones Bulging & Attendance Management Policy

February 20, 2024

CODE RED – Samsung Appliance Phones Bulging & Attendance Management Policy Note that this is a separate Code Red to the one issued earlier today regarding Comsafe and AFAs. You can view that Code Red by clicking here in case you […]